SERMON | Genesis 12:1-4a & John 3:1-17 | LENT: LEARNING TO LIVE INSIDE OUT - 2. "Go From Your Country" by Rev. Joseph Sanford at Sellersburg United Methodist Church in Sellersburg, Indiana

Sellersburg United Methodist Church Sermon Podcast

SERMON | Genesis 12:1-4a & John 3:1-17 | LENT: LEARNING TO LIVE INSIDE OUT - 2. "Go From Your Country" by Rev. Joseph Sanford at Sellersburg United Methodist Church in Sellersburg, Indiana Here we are in our own journey of faith. Have we become a settled people? Have we been holding tightly to what is familiar and comfortable? Have we been open to where the Spirit is taking us? Or are we still fumbling in the darkness? Are we longing to just stay put? Or maybe your desire to stay in the familiar and comfortable means you leave the reality that is changing to find a new place that matches your familiarity and comfort… Nicodemus walked away from Jesus…he went…but not the right kind of going at all. Are you feeling a calling to “Go” whether it is a literal going like Abram and Sarai or a figurative one like Nicodemus? (If you are feeling a calling and you want to talk with me about it, please come forward after service and let’s talk and share together) Learning to Live Inside Out… Being a disciple of Jesus Christ… means we hold all things loosely accept for our faith in Jesus and our commitment to his Kin-dom. These remaining 30 days of Lent (not counting Sundays) we MUST spend time in prayer and fasting to consider if we are in pursuit of the kind of living God chooses for us. Inward and Outward… Faith and Action… Commitment to Christ in our hearts… and commitment to Christ with our living. Embracing of the Spirit in all things… and going where she leads us. Does the Holy Spirit have anything left to show you? Is the Spirit working in new ways through others around you? Are you willing to be renewed in your way of seeing and being? Are we open to our calling to Go from what is familiar & comfortable… or have you arrived on this road to healing and salvation, my siblings? The Spirit LEADS us every step of the way…if we but trust and believe in He who sends us…when we leave behind what is familiar and comfortable with faith in Jesus Christ. So let us remember the destination of our lives—the Kin-dom Let us remember the destination of our fasting—the cross Let us remember the destination of our being—a life led by the Spirit Let us remember our calling in Jesus Christ — learning to live inside out.